However, they did a great Job and I am proud of them. I know that it is not much coming from me.
But I am proud of them anyway. Good Job Men and if there are any girls on the team Good Job Girls.
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32 arrests
New cases raising, old ones solved
By SHAWN FOUCHER Staff Writer
ADELANTO — It's just after 8 a.m., and two undercover narcotics officers are rooting through a kitchen cabinet inside an Adelanto home.
"Wanna drink?" one of the men asks, holding up a packet of Kool-Aid powder.
The other officer smiles and continues poking through a box of Honey Smacks cereal, searching for drugs he figures are hidden somewhere in the house.
"You find 'em anywhere," he says. "In Cheerios, in laundry detergent, wherever they can conceal it."
In the next breath, he picks up a blanket and shakes it; out tumbles a loaded revolver that deputies would later learn was used in a drive-by shooting earlier in the week.
"We had a witness admit that it was used in a shooting down the street," said Brad Toms, San Bernardino County Sheriff's head narcotics deputy. "It's the same weapon, the same rounds that shot up a house."
A three-city drug sweep in the High Desert on Thursday resulted in undercover officers and deputies tying up loose ends and gaining new leads in a number of cases, said Staci Johnson, Adelanto sheriff's spokesperson.
"Through these warrants, other investigations are going to occur," Johnson said.
At the Adelanto home where deputies found the handgun, a .38 special, police also seized heroin valued at $1,000, as well as a bag of marijuana and crack cocaine. Arrested and charged with drug sales at that home were Johnny Brown, 25 — deputies' primary target — and Anthony Jetton, 30, an ex-felon out of Los Angeles. Jetton was charged with sales of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm.
Photos by Michael Stenerson / Staff Photographer
Authorities handcuff individuals as they secure the location at a home in Adelanto on Thursday morning. San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies conducted a Narcotics Division Search Warrant Sweep of targets in the High Desert.
Deputies also arrested a man and woman who showed up to the home to buy drugs while they were searching it. An undercover officer who answered the alleged drug dealers' cell phone posed as one of the dealers and enticed the couple — Latisha Cleveland, age unknown, and Norman Hamilton, 42 — to drop by for a buy.
At the second house hit by one of the narcotics teams, deputies found a Hispanic woman whose husband was using stolen identities and selling methamphetamine from their house. The man was arrested later in the day at his workplace, but the two were illegal residents and the woman was receiving social security benefits from a former husband's death.
"Somebody by the name Roberto (last name) may not even know his identity was stolen," said Adelanto Detective Tim Jimerson, referring to the name used by the man who was arrested. "He might have used his credit card, ran up all the charges and did this and that, and the guy never knew it."
Jimerson said Thursday's drug sweep allows deputies to follow countless leads on everything from stolen vehicles, identity theft and pending cases.
"It's a good opportunity to clear a lot of cases," Jimerson said.
Deputies netted 32 arrests by late Thursday, but were still scouring Adelanto, Phelan and Victorville for known drug homes as of 7 p.m. The sweep — organized by the county narcotics division — included 17 search warrants and 21 arrest warrants at more than 20 homes in the three cities. More than 45 deputies from area law enforcement agencies participated in the sweep, which stemmed from a months-long investigation by undercover officers.
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